Motivational Quotes

Success

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

- Wells, H.G.

Best Quotes about Success

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

Whenever I hear,'It can't be done,'I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

Success is failure turned inside out.

Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.

Rouss, Charles B.

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The man who has done his best has done everything.

Schwab, Charles M.

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To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Brande, Dorothea

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Cronkite, Walter

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The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Besant, Sir Walter

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If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Karbo, Joe

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The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.

Shoaff, Edgar

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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Ewing, Sam

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Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands.

Ziglar, Zig

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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Price, Leontyne

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One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, Well, I'll have a go, too.

Thatcher, Margaret

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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Osmond, Donny

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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

Landers, Ann

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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Success and money have nothing in common.

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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

Ziglar, Zig

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If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Wolfe, Thomas

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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Korda, Michael

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The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.

Gambetta, Leon

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Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

Nielson, G. K.

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It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Wooden, John

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

Bliss, Edwin C.

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There is plenty of room at the top -- but no place to sit down.

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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

Winters, Jonathan

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Ruskin, John

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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Ward, William A.

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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Seneca

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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Robbins, Anthony

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You always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

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Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Waitley, Denis

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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Aristotle

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.

David Rockefeller

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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Hill, Napoleon